Karşıyaka Basket

Karşıyaka Basket, mostly known as Pınar Karşıyaka for sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish professional basketball team located in Karşıyaka, İzmir, that competes in the Turkish Basketball Super League. It is a section of the multi-sport club Karşıyaka SK. The team also goes by the name of KSK, which stands for Karşıyaka Spor Kulübü (i.e. Karşıyaka Sport Club).
History
Karşıyaka SK was founded in 1912 and opened its basketball section in 1966. Karşıyaka Basket is considered to be one of the most important basketball teams in all of Turkey. They first played in the Turkish Basketball League in 1966. They relegated to lower divisions in 1968. The club also played in lower divisions from 1968 to 1974. The team is still participating in the Turkish Basketball League since 1974. Karşıyaka Basket is sponsored by Pınar since 1998. It is the product of Yaşar Holding's Food and Beverage Group. Their home arena is the Karşıyaka Arena with a capacity of 6,500 seats, which was opened in 2005.
Big achievements with Sarıca
Karşıyaka set to name Ufuk Sarıca as head coach in the summer of 2012. Sarıca was dreamed to be in Euroleague with Karşıyaka and he said that "We have a dream and we want to be in Euroleague in 3 years." On February 9, 2014, the team won the Turkish Cup with a victory against Anadolu Efes under managing Ufuk Sarıca. It was the first championship of club in Turkish Cup. On October 8, 2014, the team won the President's Cup by beating Fenerbahçe Ülker. In the 2014–15, Karşıyaka won its second Turkish League after 1987 championship, despite finishing the regular season in the fourth place, by defeating Fenerbahçe Ülker in the playoffs semifinals by 3–1 and Anadolu Efes 4–1 in the finals.
On 29 July 2015, EuroLeague announced the participating teams for the following season and included Karşıyaka with for the 2015–16 EuroLeague season. In its second appearance ever in the top tier of European basketball, the team won 3 games and lost 7.
Honours
National competitions
Turkish Super League
Winners (2): 1986–87, 2014–15
Runner-up (2): 1983–84, 2022–23
Turkish Cup
Winner (1): 2013–14
Runner-up (1): 2004–05
President's Cup
Winners (2): 1987, 2014
European competitions
Basketball Champions League
Runner-up (1): 2020–21
FIBA EuroChallenge
Runner-up (1): 2012–13
Home arenas
İzmir Atatürk Sport Hall: (1966–2005)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Karşıyaka Sport Hall: (2005–present)
Players
Current roster
Depth chart
Notable players
Efe Aydan
Hüseyin Beşok
Kaya Peker
Arda Vekiloğlu
Mehmet Yağmur
Şemsettin Baş
Ufuk Sarıca
Hakan Köseoğlu
Muratcan Güler
- Asım Pars
Serhat Çetin
Ümit Sonkol
Barış Ermiş
Furkan Aldemir
Birkan Batuk
İlkan Karaman
Erkan Veyseloğlu
Barış Hersek
Kerem Gönlüm
İnanç Koç
- Kenan Sipahi
Berk Uğurlu
Metin Türen
- Metecan Birsen
Semih Erden
Berkan Durmaz
Burak Can Yıldızlı
Braian Angola
Juan Palacios
Ángel Delgado
Assem Marei
Amath M'Baye
Alex Tyus
Mindaugas Kuzminskas
Roberts Štelmahers
Vrbica Stefanov
Thomas Abercrombie
Alade Aminu
Jaime Lloreda
Mateusz Ponitka
Zakhar Pashutin
Jovo Stanojević
Michael Roll
Esteban Batista
Jim Rowinski
Dallas Comegys
- Henry Domercant
Marcus Slaughter
Gary Neal
- Quinton Hosley
- Will Thomas
- D. J. Strawberry
- Ali Muhammed
DaJuan Summers
- Jordan Morgan
Bonzie Colson
Award winners
Head coaches
Aydan Siyavuş (1973–1975)
Nadir Vekiloğlu
Aydan Siyavuş (1990–1991)
Murat Didin (1998–1999)
Ergin Ataman (1999)
Ahmet Kandemir (2003–2006)
Levent Topsakal (2006)
Okan Çevik (2006–2007)
Ahmet Kandemir (2007–2008)
Ayhan Kalyoncu (2008–2009)
Hakan Demir (2009–2012)
Ufuk Sarıca (2012–2016)
Nenad Marković (2016–2017)
Aleksandar Trifunović (2017–2018)
Özhan Çıvgın (2018–2019)
Dirk Bauermann (2019)
Ufuk Sarıca (2019–present)
Season by season
Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
See also
Karşıyaka S.K.
Karşıyaka Women's Volleyball Team
References
External links
Official website
Official website
TBLStat.net Profile
Eurobasket Profile
Karşıyaka S.K.
Basketball teams in Turkey
Basketball teams established in 1912
Turkish Basketball Super League teams
1912 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
Sports clubs and teams in İzmir